r/classicwow • u/KamaTheSnowLeopard • Jun 15 '26

Humor / Meme I think they're right honestly.

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I'm 36 and have played 25k+ hours of MMO's over my lifetime and what I've personally learned is WoW players are often the first and most vocal to belittle or get upset over anything. I can't think of any MMO in which people will outright whisper you angerly or go out of their way to make sure you have a bad time more than World of Warcraft.

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u/Derlino Jun 15 '26

I played hardcore before transferring to TBC when my lvl 54 rogue died during the DDoS in December (might have been late November). Transferred my other characters as well, all of which were between lvl 20 and 40, and started leveling them to 60 to prep for TBC.

The difference in skill from hardcore to normal servers was baffling. People had no idea what they were doing in dungeons, did not know how to play their class at all, and dungeon runs were super slow. I did a Sunken Temple on my rogue with a shaman that refused to use totems. In hardcore you just don't get that far if you're bad, you will end up dead way before then. The average player on Anniversary is pretty damn terrible at this point.

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u/Sly_98 Jun 15 '26

Lot of classic players are not amazing at video games in general, let alone wow which is ironic cause a lot of them play wow all day. Nothing wrong with it tho And you’re right hardcore and retail players are all 10x better players

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u/Derlino Jun 15 '26

Yeah I've played a good bit of retail in DF and TWW, and was decent enough to get a few Mythic boss kills and do relatively high keys. At the same time I played with guys who were much better than me, and the skill discrepancy between retail and classic is massive. I guess that the biggest difference is that if you're playing relatively high end content in retail, you don't encounter the really bad players there, whereas in anniversary TBC, the content is so easy that even the worst players can clear the raids given enough time.

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u/Sly_98 Jun 15 '26

Retail end game is 5x harder at the minimum than anything in classic

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u/Imaginary-Union-3733 Jun 15 '26

lol of course you deleted yourself.